¹Now it happened in the same year, ^ain the beginning of the reign of ^bZedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that ^cHananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was from ^dGibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yahweh in the sight of the priests and all the people, saying,

²“^aThus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

³‘Within two years I am going to return to this place ^aall the vessels of the house of Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.

⁴‘I am ^aalso going to return to this place ^bJeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the ^cexiles of Judah who went to Babylon,’ declares Yahweh, ‘for I will break the ^dyoke of the king of Babylon.’”

⁵Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the sight of the priests and in the sight of all the people who were standing in the ^ahouse of Yahweh,

⁶and the prophet Jeremiah said, “^aAmen! May Yahweh do so; may Yahweh establish your words which you have prophesied to return the vessels of the house of Yahweh and all the exiles, from Babylon to this place.

⁷“Yet ^ahear now this word which I am about to speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people!

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Cross references

a Jer 27:1; 49:34
b 2 Kin 24:18–20; 2 Chr 36:11–13; Jer 27:3, 12
c Jer 28:17
d Josh 9:3; 10:12; 1 Kin 3:4
a Jer 27:12; 28:11
a 2 Kin 24:13; 2 Chr 36:10; Jer 27:16; Dan 1:2
a Jer 22:26, 27
b 2 Kin 25:27; Jer 22:24; 24:1
c Jer 22:10
d Jer 27:8
a Jer 28:1
a 1 Kin 1:36; Ps 41:13; Jer 11:5
a 1 Kin 22:28